Henry Lumley Drayton
(Minister of Finance and Receiver General)

Conservative (1867-1942)

The object of the Bill is to provide for an inspection of these companies, there being none at present. There is a provision in the existing Act under which the Minister of Finance may, if he so desires, have an inspection made of any particular company. He is not in a position, however, to know what companies should or should not be inspected; and complaints are not made about companies until something is wrong with them, when inspection is generally too late. Trust and loan companies' will both be made subject to inspection because I shall introduce in a moment another Bill dealing with the latter class. The new legislation will place

both trust and loan companies in exactly the same position as insurance companies. An annual inspection is provided for because only by an annual inspection is it possible for any one to tell when special examinations ought to be made.

LOAN COMPANIES, 1914, AMENDMENT ACT.

Sir HENRY' DRAYTON (Minister of Finance) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 39, to amend the Loan Companies Act, 1914.
Motion agreed to, and Bill read the first time.

CANADA SHIPPING ACT-STEAMBOAT INSPECTION.

Hon. C. C. BALLANTYNE (Minister of Marine) moved that to-morrow the House do resolve itself into Committee of the Whole to consider a proposed resolution to amend part VII of the Canada Shipping Act, chapter 113 of the Revised Statutes relating to .steamboat inspection.

FISH INSPECTION ACT AMENDMENT.

Hon. Mr. BALLANTYNE (Minister of Marine) gave notice that to-morrow he would move in Committee of the Whole a resolution to amend the Fish Inspection Act, chapter 45 of the statutes of 914, extending the provisions of the Act to pickled herring, ale-wives, mackerel, and salmon, other than mild cured salmon, and the containers in which such fish are packed and marketed, etc.

THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

On the Orders of the Day:

L LIB

Isaac Ellis Pedlow

Laurier Liberal

Air. Speaker, I would like to ask the Government a question of supreme importance at the present time. I noticed in a recent issue of the Toronto Globe a reference made to some correspondence that had passed between the Acting Premier of the Dominion and the Premier of Ontario regarding certain representations forwarded, on behalf of the Armenian people, by the Canadian Government to the Imperial authorities, and by the latter to the Supreme Council of the League of Nations. I would like to know the tenor and nature of the representations made and which, according to press rejwrts, have been endorsed by the Premier of Ontario.

George Eulas Foster
(Minister of Trade and Commerce)

Unionist

I may say to my hon. friend that the general tenor of the representations made to the Supreme Council of the League of Nations through the Imperial Government was along the lines of securing by the making and operation of the Treaties of Peace, immunity for Armenian communities from oppression and massacre and the elimination of Turkish authority as far as they are concerned.

CONDITION OF IRELAND.

Isaac Ellis Pedlow

Laurier Liberal

I would also like to ask if it is the intention of the Dominion Government to make similar representations through -the Imperial Government to the Supreme Council of the League of Nations with regard to the deplorable conditions which, accor-ding to press reports, obtain at the present time in Ireland, and if not, why not.